A team developed a pipeline to first target cells from uncultivated microbes, and then retrieve and characterize their genomes.
JGI Earth Month: Lessons in Nature’s Resilience
As part of JGI Earth Month, revisiting lessons in Nature’s resilience resulting from studies by Berkeley Lab researchers, including JGI scientists, to understand how the microbial communities in the waters responded to the influx of oil.
Natural Prodcast Episode 7: Ben Shen
Enediynes, enabling technologies, and leveraging a large microbial strain collection for natural product discovery. In Episode 7 of Natural Prodcast, Ben Shen from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) chats with Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura about enediynes and their use in medicine, how Ben got fascinated with natural products by working on terpene chemistry, TSRI’s acquisition of the Pfizer strain collection, and our collaborations to sequence that collection, mine genomes, and develop new technology to access natural products.
JGI Earth Month: Healthy Streams, Nutritious Microbes?
As part of JGI Earth Month, hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s investigating how microbes in the Arkansas River might be influencing the river’s health.
Picking Up Threads of Cotton Genomics
In Nature Genetics, a multi-institutional team has sequenced and assembled the genomes of the major cotton lineages.
The Surprising Structure of a Shrub Willow Sex Chromosome
Understanding the mechanisms by which potential biofuel feedstocks reproduce can help guide breeding efforts.
JGI Earth Month: Kjiersten Fagnan Reflects on Shelter-in-Place Effects
In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and environmental impacts of the shelter-in-place order as part of JGI Earth Month.
Genome Insider Episode 2: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (2/2)
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The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA.
How Filamentous Fungi Sense Food
A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose.
Natural Prodcast Episode 6: Marc Chevrette
This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, features a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoctoral fellow in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project.